MUSIC NEWS YOU CAN USE FOR OCTOBER 18TH

PEARL JAM is helping U2 close out the final date of their Vertigo Tour. The two bands (who toured together back in the Zoo TV days), will tear up the island on December 9th in Honolulu.
And, believe it or not, you could be there.
U2 is giving away an all-expense paid trip to Hawaii to see the show, so they've created a "Hunt for the Lyric" contest, an Internet scavenger hunt where fans will follow clues through various websites, tracking down Bono's lyrics and piecing them together for the winning answer.
For more info on that, go to www.U2.com.

* THE GORILLAZ are going to be busy this fall. The animated freaks are releasing four fully-decked out EPs on iTunes, starting next Tuesday with the release of the "Dare" EP. There's also a DVD of live performances and videos coming out on October 1st, and as if all that wasn't good enough...the Gorillaz will also release a book, "The Rise of the Ogres," which comes out November 2nd.

* Speaking of DVDs, you close metal heads might like to know that Metallica will unleash its entire catalog of videos on December 5th. No title yet, but I'm sure it'll be something really angry.

*And finally, it seems normally sedate WILCO frontman JEFF TWEEDY took crowd control into his own hands at a concert in Springfield, Missouri, on Monday night. After warning a few drunk fans early in the show about trying to get on stage, Tweedy just couldn't take it anymore. When one more drunk jumped on stage and tried to hug the bearded bard, Tweedy...well...Tweedy just decked the guy. And returned to playing his song.

So it's official...Jeff Tweedy isn't "trying to break your heart"...he's trying to break your face.